In this month’s issue of TheKAIST Herald, the obituarysection had to be replacedby an additional interview. Consequently, thiscolumn is dedicated to Professor Jung H. Shin,who has recently left us and I would like to askpolitely for the generous understanding of ourreaders.Professor Shin never took long to leave animpression on his students. He was verycasually dressed, quantified by a permutation

In black-bordered white numbers, the footage shows the day and time it was taken. “2016-09-20 15:51:30,” the digits spell out. Officers hide behind a white pickup truck, alternating between taking cover and pointing their handguns at a car next to the truck. The car door opens as a man wearing a white baseball cap comes out of the car and, arms lowered, takes a few steps backwards. Wit

As I nestled into my chair — controller in hand — ready for a session of FIFA, I couldn’t help but think about the rumors that floated around school that day. “Chino, did you hear about the toque de queda?”, my friends would ask. Allegedly, the mayor received a letter from the 18th Street gang in which they stated that they would put in place a “toque de queda&r

It’s late at night and you naturally collapse on your couch, adjusting your weary body for maximum comfort. You settle in as your aching muscles relax and you turn on the television for some light-hearted, good-humored comedy that is guaranteed to provide you with your daily dose of happiness in one sitting. If you are in America, chances are very high that you will be tuned into one of many

Recap Last month I lauded Nashville and Ohio’s efforts to integrate social-emotional education into their school curriculums. I appreciated their realization that leadership, responsibility, and interpersonal communication, among others, should be regarded as key aspects of a successful learning environment. That being said, let’s shift our attention to the Republic of Korea, where a v

The level of political involvement of the tech companies in the 2016 US presidential election was higher than ever, with over 57 million USD (over 98 percent of which went in support to the Democratic Party) donated to the elections. Back in July, over a hundred major tech companies signed an open letter against Donald Trump, calling him a “disaster for innovation”. The only high profi

I thought adults loved apples when I was young. I remember a movie where a police officer spends years to find a criminal but lets the criminal escape after receiving an apple box as a gift. I asked my parents how the police officer could give up his work for just a box of apples. My parents told me adults cannot live without apples. Now I know what these “apples” were, and my parents

With the United States government deciding to back the self-driving car movement through federal auto safety regulators on September 19, the autonomous car industry has started to grow. Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has been focusing on creating the core software and systems. Tesla has been testing its self-driving vehicles for recent months. Uber is preparing to pick up passengers in se

KAIST has decided to remodel the Main Library, which was built in 1990, starting from March 2017 until March 2018. The school will be expanding its size by building and connecting the Academic and Cultural Creativity Building to the Main Library. The renewal is looking forward to providing up-to-date services for using the library. “Information Commons” will be placed on the first floo

The basilisk of lore is a fearsome creature. Her fangs are but twelve-fingers long, and her venom “withers all living plants in her wake.” Her gaze is enough to kill as Mourning Myrtle found out in JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Only the crowing of a cock has the potential to kill her, but it didn’t work with this basilisk. Despite being rigged out, her an

Campus police are an organization employed by the school to protectthe students, faculty and memberson campus. With a vast majority of itsconstituents living in dorms or spendingnight shifts performing research inlaboratories, the campus police at KAISThave especially a lot on their shoulders.Even an interview time was hard toarrange, with constant work shifts and anemergency dispatch to the Depar

Without the cause of death being given, itwas reported that Edward Franklin AlbeeIII, the prominent US playwright and three-times winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, has left thestage on September 16 at Montauk, New York. Sincethe emergence of American theater into worldwideprominence after World War II through the writingsof Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, EdwardAlbee was one who had fo

Returning students at KAISTwould all have experienced thesame feeling when they accessedthe school website to scavenge for humanities courses:shocked at the lack of empty spots to register for.The reason for this sudden disappearance of possibleclasses to take was due to a reduction of Korean-taughthumanities classes by the School of Humanities andSocial Sciences. Perhaps this issue would not have

One night, mostcertainly on one ofthe paved asphaltroads of Korea, the inevitablehappened. A scream, a tear,and I was unconscious on the ground. Myfriends hurried next to me and I was carriedinto my dorm room.Next morning, I was dizzy on my bed. Ayawn rendered all other tests unnecessary.Alcohol. A lot of alcohol and dizziness. Self-deprecating acts of the night had given birth toa late sun and I

The expectations for the Galaxy Note 7 were extremely high. Many tech reviewers had praised the Galaxy Note 7 for it featured a glorious dual curved-edge display, an excellent battery life, and one of the best camera resolutions in the smartphone market. Samsung even had to postpone the release of the Note 7 in some markets as the production was not able to meet the demand of the new phone. Howeve

The School of Humanities and Social Sciences recently announced a major policy change that will effectively reduce the number of lectures taught in Korean. This comes as an unwelcome surprise for many students as it not only reduces the total number of available classes, making it much more difficult to sign up for a humanities course, but it also exacerbates KAIST’s existing problem of the lack o

Learn to Say Hello I read an interesting article the other day about Nashville’s educational reforms. It was interesting for two reasons. First, it had been a while since I read an article about Nashville, Tennessee of all places, especially with news headlines being dominated by an orange presidential election. Second, it was a policy change that surprisingly seemed to be a step in the righ

Putang ina were the two Tagalog words that Rodrigo Duterte, President of the Philippines, used in a statement addressed to US President Barack Obama. The phrase, which roughly translates to “son of a whore”, came at the end of a nationally broadcasted speech in which Duterte firmly warned the United States from questioning the surge of extrajudicial killings since his appointment to of

Just as the guitar of the credit theme started to strum in full power, I abruptly silenced it with a click over the pause button. Like it happened at the end of each of the last few episodes, I could not immediately start the next episode, as is Netflix binge-watching tradition. First, I had to cool down the blood boiling under my skin. The series I was watching: “Making a Murderer”. State and Med